BlueBelle I’ve also heard about people quarantining for the required amount of time, testing negative, but then developing symptoms and testing positive after they’ve just left quarantine. The varying lengths of time before showing symptoms and becoming ill is one of the problems with this virus. I was three days only after my husband brought the virus home, and then I started to feel ill. Mind you, I was another two weeks before I became ill enough to be admitted to hospital.
My son in law is a doctor and picked up Covid through his work. He realised he’d caught the virus because he developed symptoms, but the first two tests he did said negative. He self isolated with his family anyway as he knew he had the virus, but only the third test finally confirmed he was positive.
This is one of the problems in restricting the virus. If a test says negative, many people accept that, and if they’ve got no symptoms, why wouldn’t they?